(yellow-cards Little Rik for a tu quoque fallacy)
Might I also suggest that you work on your reading comprehension? I don't see any explicit reference to "good" in the material you quoted from Thumpalumpacus, and in any case it is irrelevant. Some people have faith that "karma" will cause terrible things to happen to someone they dislike, which in many cases may not be a good thing at all.
The actual equivocation is this:
Religious faith: Belief that is generally (but not always) grounded in imagination, wishful thinking, or scriptural "promises" of an unproven deity, in the absence of evidence.
versus
Confidence: Belief that is grounded in personal experience, such as demonstrated ability to perform well on previous tests, or recurring phenomena such as the cycle of day and night, winter to spring.
It's misleading to call them both "faith," which is why I personally prefer the word "confidence." I have no faith whatsoever in your god, but plenty of confidence that I can get to work on time or bake a batch of brownies or use a power saw.
Might I also suggest that you work on your reading comprehension? I don't see any explicit reference to "good" in the material you quoted from Thumpalumpacus, and in any case it is irrelevant. Some people have faith that "karma" will cause terrible things to happen to someone they dislike, which in many cases may not be a good thing at all.
The actual equivocation is this:
Religious faith: Belief that is generally (but not always) grounded in imagination, wishful thinking, or scriptural "promises" of an unproven deity, in the absence of evidence.
versus
Confidence: Belief that is grounded in personal experience, such as demonstrated ability to perform well on previous tests, or recurring phenomena such as the cycle of day and night, winter to spring.
It's misleading to call them both "faith," which is why I personally prefer the word "confidence." I have no faith whatsoever in your god, but plenty of confidence that I can get to work on time or bake a batch of brownies or use a power saw.
